Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-11
FELLOWS TO THE FAITHFUL.

FELLOWS TO THE FAITHFUL.
The New York San reports a speech
made by Col, FELLOWS to Tammany Hall
Democrats as follows:
Never was candidate so abused as |
have been. Never did party friends stand
by a candidate as you have dOre. lGroans
for Pulitzer. The malignant wretch who
has i~nstigated this attack has been de-
feated. | must go to a little woman mp
town who would have received NE with
sympathy if had been defeated, but to
whom | am hcrac tonight in the arms OF
a hundred thousand rejoicing Democrats
I~applauseL l., and | shall tell her that he
whom she deemed worthy has not been by
you deemed unworthy. Applause
IL told you that felt no e!atiOn at my
nomination, and now IN the hour oil vic
tory / tell you that | am impressed with
the solemn sense Of the responsibility OF
the duty | nave to perform in directing the
machinery Of that great office. shall
endeayor to advance the peace and welfare
and order of this community; to see that
law is observed; to see that the family is
protected, that individuals are cared for,
that crime is punished and repressed; |
shall endeayOr to 10 my duty, not with
the malice Of an eXecutiOner, bnt as di-
rected by your votes to stand between the
accused and the people who present the
accusation, and TO see for both that there
is absolute fair play before the law; that |
NAV show that / deserve the confidence
that you have repOSed in me, and for
which | feel a gratitude that l cannot ad-
equately express in words" Cheers
Later, the victorious Colonel spoke to
the County Democracy in this strain.
Fellow Democrats, the campaign which
has Just clOsed-closed, apparently, with
complete Democratic success throughout
the State and the eOunty-haS been char
acterized in ZONE respects BY more iieudish
m~alignity, by more senseleSS Y~tuperation
and unmerited abuse than has ever been
paralleled in our political history. The
people of the city OF New York to-day, if
the returns yet to be received are in accord
with those already received, have set their
heel at once and forever upon this character
of political warfare. LCheers
For two weeks it has not beena contest
between Mr.. NicOll and myself, but it has
DGGu u OOuNCNI hNAN CNh . nldllkGaukR NON-
ardly, and INSCRIPTIONS adyenturer on the
one side, and the people of the county Of
New York on the other. He thought he
owned this metropolis. Proudly he pro-
claimed his determination to elect candi-
dates at his will. lie had set mp q mon
strous machine in our midst which over
awed c~aueuses, overshadoNed conventions,
and took no thought OF the will and the
power of the people. Stripped OF his power
tonight, bound, shOrn, and helpless, how
wretched his reflections must be, [Great
cheers.
81 will not deny q keen sense o. person.
al qualification at this victory, because so
wickedly had | been viliied and 80 bitter
" attacked that it seemed that a verdict
against me at the polls to-day would have
been q verdict that l was unworthy of con-
fdenos in this city, where | have lived for
over twenty years"
Two minutes cheering interrupted the
District Attorney elect at thispoint. When
the throng quieted be added:
"This victory, for the sake Of the Office
it gives me, brings no feeling OF pride or
citation. | know how heavy is the weight
of care and responsibility which il imposes
My one sincere desire is 10 so conduct that
Office that my Official life in it shall be the
completeSt REPUTATION OF the vile abuse
which has been so unScrCpulouSly layished
upon me. [Cheers / have but one de-
sire, and that is to conduct myself that
order shall be maintained in this commu-
nifty, homes protected, property and life
rendered securer, and criminals who break
our laws brought TO the retribuiiOn which
the laws demand
At this sentence the crowd rose to its
feet and waved hate and canes in the air
and cheered and stamped in wild enthusi-
aSm.
81 have no other desire" Col. Fellows
exclaimed. 81 10 into the Office I'M
hampered by pledges, free and unhindered
to do the best I can. And / pledge you
all tonight that if / am District Attorney
from the LIST Of January your interests and
the whole interests OF this metropolis, the
~yindieatiOn Of ouI laws, the preservation
of our laws, the preservation Of our system,
and the maintaining Of those forms of our
civilization which make rs = people shall
be my constant care.
'And now, 70 you, Democrats, what
shall / saw? + have not found it difficult
on other occasions to coin thoughts and to
pour them out before you, but how feeble
are nv words tonight to express the obli-
cations under which the Democracy Of this
county have plsced me today. They have
horne me upamid . stOrmo of eontumely and
o-biurCation. 1t outraged every feeling OF
deceney; it assailed every sacred obligation;
IL invaded the precincts Of my home IL
stole my correspondence from lawyers Of